The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.